Dave Abrahams wrote: [... setting zero price for C++ standard ...]
Sorry, I just don't know. As convener, Herb Sutter deals with the governing bodies a lot. If you're curious, you might ask him.
Perhaps he could share his insights in a post to this thread? Could you please drop him an email (an email from me is more likely to die in his spam folder). BTW, I found this: http://www.iso.org/iso/iso_in_figures_2010.pdf (Financing) "140 million CHF per year is the estimated cost for the operation of committee secretariats financed 38 by member bodies holding these secretariats 36 million CHF represents the operational cost of the ISO Central Secretariat financed 53% through membership fees 47% through sales of publications and other income from services" It would be really interesting to know how much exactly ISO gets from sales of C++ PDFs (and whether making them free would really bankrupt ISO)... See also: http://www.acm.org/tsc/acmfree.htm regards, alexander.